At least six decades of mining has caused significant environmental damage in the Phalaborwa area
The province is home to the biggest gas and helium project in the country. Will it speed up the shift towards renewable energy sources, or could it potentially hinder progress? Refilwe Mochoari investigates
The public and civil society taking action to ensure compliance with environmental sustainability local and international laws and treaties is likely to gather momentum
How South Africa’s resource-intensive film industry is starting to go green
Researchers say South Africa needs a ‘deep just transition’ that goes beyond moving to renewable energy
For households in mining towns a greener economy must provide more secure jobs that pay enough to ensure household wellbeing and upward mobility
Like unfinished flyovers in Cape Town, global climate finance and domestic demand often don’t meet up
In fewer than three days, a US citizen emits as much carbon as a person from Chad or Niger does in one year. Such is the asymmetry in culpability for climate change.
Failing to invest in a greener economy could cost South Africa trillions, but calls to mobilise capital come amid fiscal strain
Financiers are ‘impact investing’ by shifting their support to investment products that prioritise environmental, social and governance issues
The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.
On a provincial level, programmes such as Gauteng’s The Innovation Hub are helping to create green economic growth
Paris is pushing back against the dominance of the car
NSTF-Lewis Foundation Green Economy Award
Thinking about how to approach challenges as opportunities is as crucial to social causes as it is to startups and big business
Winner: Aller River Pilot Project
Winner: Rammed Earth House
Winner: WWF Environmental Leaders
The UFS now has 156 NRF-rated researchers and five Sarchi Research Chairs
The green economy has great potential to create employment
Though the sector’s job creation could outstrip mining, lack of capital and skills is an impediment.
The much-vaunted green economy is an illusion that hides that nothing much has changed, says Jeff Rudin.
Britain’s Green Investment Bank is the world’s first bank solely focused on lending to clean energy projects.
By embracing a cleaner energy path not only will the country be able to catapult ahead of others, but it will also be able to create jobs.
A plan to alert consumers to ecofriendly products has ended with the closure of a government agency, writes Fiona Macleod.
As SA focuses on pro-poor growth and job creation, tens of thousands of new posts in the booming green economy are being filled by young job-seekers.
Leaked documents show the UK is trying to water down key environmental regulations in Brussels, despite trumpeting its commitment to green issues.
Some 15 million to 60 million jobs
The Mail & Guardian encourages people to get their entry forms for the Greening the Future Awards.
President Jacob Zuma has said that government is to invest billions in mass transport systems as a way of ‘greening’ the South African economy.
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/ 25 November 2011
The green jobs report says South Africa’s green economy could create 460 000 jobs by 2050, which could result in an expanded productive capacity.
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/ 21 November 2011
The department of public enterprise’s climate change policy framework has to meet the special needs of state-owned companies, says Malusi Gigaba.